220 COCCINELLIDJE. 



obsolete. The legs are pitchy-black at their bases, with yellow tibiae and tarsi, of 

 which, however, the bilobed apex is blackish. 



This is a less convex insect than the preceding species, and has also the elytra more 

 parallel on their sides. In the shortness of the thorax, the short antennae, stout palpi, 

 and other characters it agrees well with them. In one example from Bugaba the red 

 spot is suffused so as to involve the whole disk of the elytra in a common spot reaching 

 entirely across the wing-cases, but nearly separated at the suture. 



6. Neaporia argentifrons. (Tab. XII. figg. 6 ; 6 a, maxillary palpus.) 



Breviter oblonga, rufo-picea. nitida, tenuiter pubescens ; capite prothoraceque viridibus, subtilissime punctatis, 

 boc transverso, marginibus lateralibus leviter anguste reflexis, illo inter oculos argenteo-albido, vittis 

 duabus nigro-viridibus ; scutello elytrisque castaneis, his parcius punctatis. Long. 2*5-3 millim. 



Hab. Mexico, Toxpain (Salle). 



Var. Elytris pone medium et disco usque ad humeros indeterminate viridibus. 



Hab. Guatemala, Zapote (Champion). 



This species is nearly of the same size and form as N. metallica, and, considering the 

 single example from Zapote as a variety, it may probably be a more northerly form of 

 that species, differing mainly in colour. The head has the whole of the front and 

 epistome shining silvery-white, with two posteriorly-abbreviated dark vittae ; and this is 

 so also in the Zapote variety. The thorax has the usual oblique sulcus separating the 

 middle portion which receives the head from the produced front angles. The palpi 

 have the terminal joint blackish. 



There are two examples from Toxpam, one of which we figure. 



7. Neaporia amabilis. (Tab. XII. fig. 7.) 



Ereviter oblonga, rufo-picea, nitidissima, parce profunde punctata ; capite nigro-piceo, epistomate palpisque 

 rufo-piceis ; prothoraee viridi, transverso, angulis anticis valde prominulis, lateribus reflexis, disco parce 

 minute punctato ; elytris cupreo-purpureis, parcius punctatis ; pedibus runs. Long. 2 millim. 



Hab. Guatemala, El Tumbador 2500 feet (Champion). 



The form of this species is very similar to that of N. metallica and N. argentifrons. 

 The head is more coarsely punctured than in either of them ; it is pitchy-black tinged 

 with green, with the mouth and palpi pitchy-red. The thorax has its disk more even, 

 there being less indication of an oblique sulcus, and it is of a dark green ; there is no 

 pubescence to be seen on the whole upper surface. The elytra are of a brilliant 

 coppery-purple, inclining to be castaneous ; and in this respect N. amabilis is somewhat 

 like an example of N. argentifrons from Toxpam, but the punctures are much sparser 

 and larger, and it is scarcely half the bulk of the latter. The colour of the elytra 

 probably varies. 



Only one specimen has been received. 



